Improvement in grain-baskets



G. P. (JUAN.

Grain-Baskets.

Patented Oct. 28. i873.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEioE.

GEORGE P. COAN, OF VVYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN.

IMPRovEMENT IN GRAIN-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,018, dated October 28, 1873 application led July 14, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. GOAN, of Wyandotte, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Baskets; and I do dethe bottom thereof.

Like letters indicate like parts in each hgure.

. rIhe nature of this invention relates to the construction of grain-baskets, making them stronger and more durable than those in or dinary use, while the inside is perfectly smooth, thereby enabling the basket to be easily and freely emptied.

In-the accompanying drawings, A represents the V-shaped wooden splints, which form the walls of the basket, their upper and wider ends being 'secured between an exterior wooden hoop, a, and an interior wire hoop, b, by means of proper rivets or clinched nails. The lower ends of the splints A are secured between an inner metallic disk, c, and an outer disk, d, of the same size and material, in a similar manthese hoops are made of wood, and grain.

lodges against and under such interior wooden hoop.

I employ but one exterior hoop, c, which I secure by a small clout-nail driven through the hoop e (which is of iron) and each of the splints, and clinched on the inside, thereby avoiding the objections to the employment of an interior hoop, making the basket stronger, lighter, and more durable. B yare proper handles, secured to the basket in any convenient and desired manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the basket herein described, wherein the splints A, wooden hoop a, wire hoops b c, and metallic disks e d are arranged and secured together, as described.

GEORGE l?. COAN. Witnesses:

Tnos. S. SPEAGUE, CHAsEHUEsTIs. 

